INVITATION: Teach to Reach: Connect 6
https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach

You are invited to join the sixth edition of Teach to Reach: Connect, the quarterly digital health networking event in French and English reaching over 45,000 national and sub-national immunization and other Primary Health Care (PHC) professionals. View the programme…

We are pleased to welcome the following partners to Teach to Reach: Bridges to Development, Bruyère, The Curve, UNICEF, Wazoku, Wellcome, the IA2030 Working Group on Coverage & Equity (SP3), and the Gavi-supported Zero-Dose Community of Practice (ZD COP).

This edition will honor the more than 8,000 Members of the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 and focus on sharing effective strategies to overcome COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and gender barriers to immunization.For the first time, Teach to Reach will be open to health professionals outside of immunization, with a plenary session on the neglected needs of women’s health, focusing on progress made by practitioners tackling Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS), a neglected tropical disease that affects an estimated 56 million women and girls. See more of this edition’s highlights…

1. Request your invitation
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TEACH TO REACH CONNECT 6 REPLAY
Friday 24 June 2022

We are pleased to announce that the Teach to Reach: Connect 6 plenaries and workshops will be livestreamed again on Friday 24 June 2022.

Topics covered include: Immunization Agenda 2030, COVID-19 vaccine demand, gender barriers to immunization, and neglected needs of women’s health.

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Teach to Reach: Connect 6 Replay schedule
Livestream on 24 June 2022

Overview of Teach to Reach Connect 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BktBFuso3hg

Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030): Inauguration of the First International Photography Exhibition for IA2030
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM36F0A-kfw

Celebrating the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 at Teach to Reach: Connect 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvgZX-ZKoe0

PLENARY 1. How we build confidence in COVID-19 vaccines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxYhizK3FM8

PLENARY 2. Listening and learning from the experience of women and men who are challenging gender barriers in immunization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_DFjk9ggZ4

PLENARY 3. Neglected needs of women’s health: Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) Experience Sharing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEl2wZ4n9B4

Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030): How you can contribute your expertise to strengthen global knowledge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPjgDrJRM4s

Responsive Feedback: The Curve at Teach to Reach 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3AMCi7sMpM

Insights Live #5: Key learning about demand for COVID-19 vaccination, gender barriers, and neglected tropical diseases

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Insights Live is the Geneva Learning Foundation’s event series in which we share what we are learning through the Foundation’s fast-growing global network reaching, as of July 2022, over 45,000 health professionals.

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Request your invitation to Teach to Reach: Connect 7
https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach

In this edition of Insights Live, we focus on what we learned during Teach to Reach: Connect 6, the world’s largest networking event for health professionals, about three key topics:

1. How we build confidence in COVID-19 vaccines

2. Listening and learning from the experience of women and men who are challenging gender barriers in immunization

3. Neglected needs of women’s health: Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS)

Insights Live #5: Learning about COVID-19 vaccination, gender barriers, and neglected diseases

Watch the livestream on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXr64AAmUt8

Insights Live is the Geneva Learning Foundation’s event series in which we share what we are learning through the Foundation’s fast-growing global network reaching, as of July 2022, over 45,000 health professionals.

Become an Insights Member to receive the full slide deck with 300+ insights on these topics
https://www.learning.foundation/insights

Request your invitation to Teach to Reach: Connect 7
https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach

In this edition of Insights Live, we focus on what we learned during Teach to Reach: Connect 6, the world’s largest networking event for health professionals, about three key topics:

1. How we build confidence in COVID-19 vaccines

2. Listening and learning from the experience of women and men who are challenging gender barriers in immunization

3. Neglected needs of women’s health: Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS)

Become an Insights Member to discover how ideas and practices are being shared across health system levels and geographic borders – and get access to the Ideas Engine for your own needs
https://www.learning.foundation/insights

LEARN MORE ABOUT TGLF INSIGHTS

We need fresh insights to support those leading change in districts, health facilities, and communities.

As a global community, we recognize the significance of local action to achieve the global goals.

“The lessons and learning are coming from people who are working in the community. That is where vaccination actually happens. We need to be focusing on the most local level of the immunization programme.” – Kate O'Brien, Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines, and Biologicals (IVB), World Health Organization (WHO)

WHY IS THE GENEVA LEARNING FOUNDATION SHARING INSIGHTS?

The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) hosts the largest and fastest-growing community of national and sub-national immunization professionals, with over 46,000 active participants from over 120 countries, as of May 2021. 80% of members are sub-national immunization staff, with strong support and linkage to national teams.

We realized that the valuable multi-country knowledge shared in our programmes should be regularly given back to the community, and that it could also inform our partners in identifying real-time priorities and opportunities and formulating strategies.

The Insights Unit is the Foundation’s research and analysis group. We systematically consolidate and communicate the contributions of learners in the Foundation’s programmes to share back to participants, governments, civil society and development partners.

To synthesize and spread insights, we work in partnership with Bridges to Development, the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and other partners.

Learn more about TGLF Insights
https://www.learning.foundation/insights

The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) is pleased to introduce its new Insights podcast.

This podcast provides a unique window through which global stakeholders can better understand what is happening on the ground within countries, in particular giving a voice to those working below the national level.

Insights Live on Google podcasts
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9saXN0ZW5ib3guYXBwL2YvRzVRY0s5elJwYmp0

Insights Live on Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/insights-from-the-geneva-learning-foundation/id1645688338

Insights Live on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/show/1WRSozRprMrO14j5dHzOaF

Learn more about TGLF Insights
https://www.learning.foundation/insights

New Immunization Agenda 2030 course from the World Health Organization

WHO Scholar Level 1 certification course on commitment and demand for vaccination
https://www.learning.foundation/who-scholar-level-1-certification-on-commitment-and-demand-for-vaccination

New to Telegram or want to learn to use it better? TGLF’s Charlotte Mbuh has prepared a set of quick tutorials just for you.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/g19lhizmiprukay/AACD2FIVQiSAn0Yu0rpCIC0ia?dl=0

Teach to Reach 7: Local health practitioners from all over the world will meet on 14 October 2022 to explore how to build back better and prepare for the next pandemic

GENEVA, 5 October 2022 (THE GENEVA LEARNING FOUNDATION) – The seventh edition of Teach to Reach on 14 October 2022 will connect over 13,000 immunization and other Primary Health care (PHC) professionals determined to “build back better”, as the COVID-19 pandemic fuels the largest continued backslide in vaccinations in three decades. 25 million infants missed out on lifesaving vaccines in 2021.

Request your invitation for Teach to Reach 7
https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach

At Teach to Reach, the Women Who Deliver Vaccines collective will lead the Opening Ceremony, sharing their perspective on how women are contributing to “build back better”.

Learn more about Women Who Deliver Vaccines https://www.learning.foundation/iwd

Listening and learning from the experience of women and men who are challenging gender barriers to immunization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_DFjk9ggZ4

During the summer, the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) grew to over 10,000 members. At Teach to Reach, Movement implementers from national teams, districts, and health facilities will report on their progress in tackling their most difficult challenges using their local resources and capacities.

Listen to local practitioners share how they are taking action to recover immunization services and build back better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvgZX-ZKoe0

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Working together, IA2030 Movement practitioners from 99 countries produced in just four months over half a million data points. Grounded in their local experience and expertise, this massive volume of information has been synthesized into practical knowledge and insights about “what works” to build back better. These constitute new community-based learning resources being used by local practitioners that could also inform country, regional, and global stakeholders.

See what we learned from Teach to Reach 6 in June 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXr64AAmUt8

Both recovery and future preparedness depend on the resilience of local communities, health professionals working at the local levels. We call on global partners, especially the architects of future pandemic preparedness, to take the time to listen to and learn with health professionals from the frontlines.

Watch our interview with Kate O’Brien, WHO’s Director of Immunization: Should global partners pay more attention, listen more intently… and, if so, how?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCB20y49hBI

In partnership with UNICEF, Teach to Reach will explore how health professionals, already trusted advisers to communities, can grow stronger by supporting each other to improve inter-personal communication (IPC).

Watch a previous Teach to Reach peer learning session with UNICEF about strategies to strengthen confidence in COVID-19 vaccination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxYhizK3FM8

About the Geneva Learning Foundation’s Teach to Reach digital health platform
The Geneva Learning Foundation hosts the largest and fastest-growing community of national and sub-national immunization and other Primary Health Care (PHC) professionals, with over 46,000 active participants from more than 110 countries. Teach to Reach is the Foundation’s flagship programme to transform teaching and learning to achieve the goals of Immunization Agenda 2030.

Learn more about The Geneva Learning Foundation
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7054450

What works on the frontlines to build vaccine confidence?

The Geneva Learning Foundation publishes today a ground-breaking report analyzing 734 case studies developed by health professionals as part of a peer learning programme by The Geneva Learning Foundation, weeks before the introduction of COVID-19 vaccine.

This Report will be presented by its 734 Contributors at Teach to Reach: Connect 7 on 14 October 2022, as a contribution to the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030.

Get the report now
https://www.learning.foundation/community-vaccine-acceptance

Request your invitation to Teach to Reach
https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach

Three great reasons to read this Report
1. Discover the four targeted intervention approaches that consistently resulted in improved vaccine acceptance and uptake.

2. Learn what were the two key determinants that helped change the minds and behaviors of individuals, families, and communities.

3. Find out how health professionals successfully worked with communities to overcome legacies of mistrust in marginalized communities.

Who developed this report?
734 health professionals from all levels of the health system took time out from their demanding daily duties to reflect on their practice, describing and then analyzing a situation in which they successfully helped an individual or a group accept or gain confidence that taking vaccines would protect them from disease.

Furthermore, they did this during four weeks of remote collaboration at a very crucial historical moment, months before the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine were to arrive in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.

From the preface by Heidi Larson, PhD, Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science and Founding Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine:
“Reading this report, I experienced a sense of discovery. The stories shared gave me renewed appreciation of these health professionals who faced even greater challenges in the face of a deadly pandemic. […] So much remains determined by the capacity of people on the frontlines to explain, advocate, and respond in ways that are almost entirely dictated by context, in this case a highly uncertain and evolving pandemic.”

Application deadline extended until 17 October 2022

New Immunization Agenda 2030 course from the World Health Organization
WHO Scholar Level 1 certification course on commitment and demand for vaccination
https://www.learning.foundation/who-scholar-level-1-certification-on-commitment-and-demand-for-vaccination

Sneak preview: Teach to Reach Connect 7

Join this sneak preview for a 10-minute overview of Teach to Reach: Connect 7 on 14 October 2022.

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https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9saXN0ZW5ib3guYXBwL2YvVGc2SGVQeGRGODlW

“My mother is a hero in immunization.“

Health facility professional Morris Kiogora from Kenya celebrates his mother for being an immunization hero and champion. Read his story…

Watch the Teach to Reach: Connect 7 plenary today

You can view the plenary on this channel in Telegram, as well as YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Try each blue underlined link until you find the one that works for you.

IMPORTANT After the plenary, you will have to join the Teach to Reach: Connect platform to meet your colleagues.

Learn more about Teach to Reach: https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach

Pandemic preparedness through connected transnational digital networks of local actors

At the Geneva Learning Foundation, we believe that continuous learning combined with action is the definition of preparedness.

However, trying to imagine preparedness and response to new pandemics using old, failed methods of training and capacity building – whether face-to-face or online – is both dangerous and irrational.

Read this blog post to discover how digitally-connected networks of peers can enable, support, and strengthen preparedness and response, for local outbreaks as well as for the next global pandemic:
https://redasadki.me/2022/10/13/epidemic-preparedness-through-connected-transnational-digital-networks-of-local-actors/

Congratulations to the 6467 francophones and 7667 English speakers of Teach to Reach: Connect 7 on Friday, October 14, 2022

Get access now to the Teach to Reach: Connect 7 recordings
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLti7k0eaN3gQM1Vnie2tjar6rih9FqTfk

Registration is now open for Teach to Reach: Connect 8 on March 3, 2023
https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach

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Learning from the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030)

As announced at Teach to Reach 7, we are pleased to share today the new IA2030 Movement Knowledge to Action Hub:
https://www.learning.foundation/ia2030-knowledge-action-hub

Congratulations to the more than 10,000 Members of the Movement who contributed to creating this new knowledge, grounded in their expertise and experience in tackling their local challenges on the road to achieving the goals of IA2030.

This new page provides a gateway to living documents produced by health professionals contributing to the the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030).

1. Practitioners can share their own experiences, feedback, and comments at any time in response to what they read.

2. New insights from practitioners will be shared with both global and local practitioners through The Double Loop, the Foundation’s Insights newsletter.

3. New versions of a living document may be updated based on implementation experience, new priorities and challenges, and likely needs during the next decade.

Learn more about the learning science that underpins the new Hub
https://redasadki.me/2022/10/12/reinventing-the-path-from-knowledge-to-action-in-global-health/

Reinventing the path from knowledge to action in global health
At the Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF), we have just begun to share a publication like no other. It is titled Overcoming barriers to vaccine acceptance in the community: Key learning from the experiences of 734 frontline health workers.

The report documents vaccine confidence practices just weeks before the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines. It is grounded in the experience of 734 practitioners from local communities, districts, regions, and national teams, who developed case studies documenting a situation in which they were able to successfully lead individuals and groups toward better understanding and acceptance of the benefits of vaccines and vaccination.

Immunization staff from all levels of the health system became citizen scientists, active knowledge-makers drawing on their personal experience of a situation in which they successfully overcame the barriers to vaccine acceptance in the community.

The report, prefaced by Heidi Larson who leads the Vaccine Confidence Project, includes DOI to facilitate citation in academic research. (The Foundation uses a repository established and maintained by the Geneva-based CERN for this purpose.)

However, knowing that academic papers have (arguably) an average of three readers, we have a different aspiration for dissemination… Here is our plan.

Read the full blog post: https://redasadki.me/2022/10/12/reinventing-the-path-from-knowledge-to-action-in-global-health/